Steve Troughton-SmithOct 14

The current Meta Quest 3 experience is incredibly impressive. It's so much closer to visionOS now in software, the screen is sharp, hand tracking is great, it has a native YouTube app, and it costs €3500 less than a Vision Pro.

I am so much more impressed with ten mins in a Quest 3 (not mine) than I was with the Vision demo experience at Apple Retail. Apple's one ace was the App Store, and developers have shown very clearly how they feel about that, and their relationship with the company

Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithOct 14
I played maybe 2 hours of Hitman VR, through Steam Link, wirelessly. It's *flawless*. The Quest 3 battery seems to last forever when the processing is offloaded like that. I honestly had no idea that Quest works out of the box with SteamVR these days. I am so impressed I almost want to buy one for myself
Show threadSteve Troughton-Smith
Having actually spent enough time with the Meta Quest 3 now, I am pretty convinced that Apple squandered their platform lead on VR by making all the wrong tradeoffs. 2 x $400 worth of display panels that can't be produced in volume? Not in any way worth the delta over what's in the Quest. In pretty much every conceivable way, the Quest is a better product, at nearly a tenth the price. Especially now it has copied all of visionOS' best features in the two years Apple was sitting on its hands
Oct 16 at 10:28pmIvory for Mac
Show threadSteve Troughton-SmithOct 16
To be clear: I think a Vision Pro should exist. But there should also be a 'Vision', with iPhone-level components (and pricing), and lower-quality/'good-enough' everything. Both should come with first-party precise hand controllers in the box. And I don't think the right device shipped first. I think Apple spent so long heads-down developing Vision Pro that they were fixated on Microsoft HoloLens (which failed) instead of the Oculus Rift (which got really good). They sure got a HoloLens.
Show threadLeonOct 16
@stroughtonsmith I think the root problem with the Vision Pro is apple never wanted to make a vr headset but ended up shipping one anyway
Show threadrardk64Oct 16
@stroughtonsmith Wild especially that they're allegedly abandoning it now for Glasses, which also seems to be an effort to chase what Meta's doing.
Show threadSteve TibbettOct 17
@stroughtonsmith Apple has lost the ability to do anything quickly. I think a lot of big companies recognize this and switch to acquisitions for innovation. There isn't really anyone to acquire though is there? Valve's VR team?